j.hall wrote on Wed, 22 February 2006 16:40 |
stop being a bunch of cry babies. We already agreed that if you can't hang, you can dial it up a step. that will get you D on your low E string.
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Before I bitch, I'll quote one of my old bosses favorites:
"You want sympathy? Look it up.
It's in the dictionary between shit and syphilis!"That said, here's my bucket 'o' bitches:
1) Tuning the Low string up to a D (a full step up from the suggested tuning) would mean taking the high B & E up 6 half steps to keep the intervals the same. That's pretty darn tight! I didn't think about a tuning that couldn't really be moved.
2) All my guitars are set up with 9's or 10's. I'd have to cut a new nut to string up w/12's and I'm too lazy for that.
3) This tuning does not sound like a chord to me when played open which means it won't lend itself easily to slide. My idea of an open tuning is something that facilitates slide. This tuning's main purpose (from the few minutes I spent with it last night) is to make playing the guitar harder!
Yes I know, ..... that's the whole point, try something new!
I'll do it.
bitch bitch whine moan......friggin fraggin rashum frashum ......Hmmmm ... What if I pull a Keith Richards and throw the low string in the trash and just string up the top 5? I could get those 5 to work a step lower than suggested. (Or not play the bottom string and not tell anyone I didn't tune it down to B). Hmmmm.....
or....
Is it okay if I use a lighter string than normal for the low string and take it up instead of down.
hmmm........
If I see Craig, I'm gonna get him real drunk and put his sorry arse on a plane to a 3rd world country where there is no alcohol and where they are REAL intolerant of free thinking musician types for suggesting this tuning!